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Anyone remembers NetBSD's wtf? http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi/man?wtf+6+NetBSD-current http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi/man?wtf+6+NetBSD-curren...

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• keenerd 8y ago
  I maintain my own set of modern internet acronyms for it. Speaking of which, I need to merge a pull request for that.
  • coverband 8y ago
    There was a super helpful Internet jargon list maintained by one of the 3-letter federal agencies, obtained through an FOIA request I believe... I used to refer to it whenever I needed to decipher confusing twitter conversations.
    • jwilk 8y ago
      This one? https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/nze74k/the-fbi-built-the-most-comprehensive-list-of-twitter-slang-weve-ever-seen https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/nze74k/the-fbi-bu...
      • keenerd 8y ago
        I would love to merge that into Arch's wtf, but it is just a collection of scanned images. No text.
        • jwilk 8y ago
          https://archive.org/stream/FBIGuideToInternetSlang/Internet%20Slang_djvu.txt https://archive.org/stream/FBIGuideToInternetSlang/Internet%... has OCR-ed text, but the quality is poor. https://github.com/matthewspencer/twitter-shorthand https://github.com/matthewspencer/twitter-shorthand has transcription of the first 22 pages.
    • hashhar 8y ago
      Are you talking about the Jargon File by any chance. http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/index.html http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/index.html
      • jwilk 8y ago
        The Jargon File is maintained by esr, which is 3 letters, but I don't think he's a federal agency. ;-)
        • dgivney 8y ago
          We can neither confirm nor deny that he's a federal agency.
• lgeorget 8y ago
  As a non-native English speaker, I need it all the time to follow conversations on Internet. I've also made a a personal acronyms database to read GCC's internals documentation and another to translate errno codes to their constant name and vice-versa: https://github.com/lgeorget/acronymdb?files=1 https://github.com/lgeorget/acronymdb?files=1
  • y4mi 8y ago
    > As a non-native English speaker, I need it all the time to follow conversations on Internet I found that installing the google dictionary extension[1] for chrome solved that problem for me entirely. you just doubleclick on the word and a popup opens with its definition. This extension is the primary reason I'd loath to ever to switch browsers. [1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/google-dictionary-by-goog/mgijmajocgfcbeboacabfgobmjgjcoja?hl=en https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/google-dictionary-...
    • Nannooskeeska 8y ago
      I'm trying out switching over to Firefox and this is 100% the biggest thing I miss about Chrome. I keep double-clicking words and waiting a few seconds just for nothing to pop up.
      • rationaloutlook 8y ago
        There are many extensions for Firefox that provide the same functionality. Here's one: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/dictionary-extension/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/dictionary-ex... Also, if you're using Windows, you can use WordWeb (which is a full-fledged app).
        • drcongo 8y ago
          And on Mac you can three finger tap on any word to get a definition.
        • y4mi 8y ago